John (dramatist) Ford quotes

" I have spent Many a silent night in sighs and groans, Ran over all my thoughts, despised my fate, Reasoned against the reasons of my love, Done all that smoothed-cheek Virtue could advise, But found all bootless: 'tis my destiny That you must either love, or I must die. " # Love # Time and Time Management # Death and Dying

" A bachelor May thrive by observation, on a little. A single life's no burden: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance. " # Bachelor # Marriage # Life and Living

" Her words are trusty heralds to her mind. " # Language # Words # Mind

" Oh, happy kings, Whose thrones are raised in their subjects' hearts. " # Happiness # Royalty # Kings

" Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality. " # Truth # Love # Family

" Flattery Is monstrous in a true friend. " # Flattery # Murder # Friends and Friendship

" Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh. " # Friends and Friendship # Doctors # Disease

" Tell us, pray, what devil This melancholy is, which can transform Men into monsters. " # Prayer # Devil # Melancholy

" Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease. " # Disease # Mind # Melancholy

" Philosophers dwell in the moon. " # Philosophers and Philosophy # Moon # Love